A Weed by Any Other Name

 My yard is currently covered in these:

And also these: 

It is literally covered in dandelions

 in various stages of birth, growth and death.

They are beautiful.

I looked up the definition of  'weed' and found it to be simply this:

"A weed is any plant out of place."

These particular plants do no harm to their surrounding environment.

And, for example, they can be harvested for both food and medicine.

Every part of the dandelion is edible.

So it's not so much that these plants have no intrinsic value,

but the fact that they are displaced and plentiful makes them unwanted.

Valueless.

 

 

 When I think back over my life I can remember times where I have also been a dandelion:

Wild, prolific, plentiful and.... out of place. 

Rich in resources, but unharvested and therefore unappreciated. 

In that way, we are kin...me and the dandelions.

 So today I am paying a little tribute to this beautiful spring rose.

Komorebi

 I recently discovered a new word: komorebi

 It is a Japanese word that refers to "sunlight shining through the trees"

 

Related, but less often used, is the word hamorebi

which refers to "the sun peaking through the leaves" instead of the branches or trunk

 

 

What strikes me most about these words...the mere fact of them....is that they indicate that these are things people actually talk about, or have needed to talk about. 

Otherwise these words wouldn't exist. 

 

 

 

I would like to know the word for "sun shining through long grass".

 

 And also the word for 

"accidental discovery of small new lives in nature you hadn't encountered before"

 

 

And finally: what is the word for "sunlight falling on new green shoots"?
 

These are a few things I would like to be talking about.